湯川秀樹(ゆかわひでき)

ゆかわひでき
noun (proper)
Yukawa Hideki (physicist)
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1. Yukawa Hideki (1907–1981)
Japanese theoretical physicist who predicted the meson in 1935. In 1949 he became the first Japanese Nobel laureate, winning the physics prize, which gave great encouragement to postwar Japan.
湯川秀樹(ゆかわひでき)の伝記(でんき)を読(よ)んだ。
I read a biography of Yukawa Hideki.
湯川秀樹(ゆかわひでき)は中間子(ちゅうかんし)の存在(そんざい)を予言(よげん)した。
Yukawa Hideki predicted the existence of the meson.
湯川秀樹(ゆかわひでき)のノーベル賞(しょう)受賞(じゅしょう)は、戦後(せんご)の日本人(にほんじん)に大(おお)きな希望(きぼう)を与(あた)えた。
Yukawa Hideki's Nobel Prize gave great hope to the Japanese after the war.

Often called 湯川博士(ゆかわはかせ) 'Dr. Yukawa'. He worked at Kyoto University, whose Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics is named after him, and after the war he campaigned against nuclear weapons.

Related words

  • ノーベル賞(しょう): Nobel Prize
  • 中間子(ちゅうかんし): meson
  • 朝永振一郎(ともながしんいちろう): Tomonaga Shin'ichirō, Japan's second physics laureate (1965)

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Related: ノーベル賞(しょう) (Nobel Prize)
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